What do you think about people releasing software with no license, and no copyright? I know that you are against the very idea of copyright, and that GPL is your "fix" for the system. These days, many people publish by pushing their code to places like github. Some projects have no copyright notice on them at all. In a world where copyright exists, what are the ramifications of this, for the user, for the developer, for the corporation?

Why not do it like U-Haul, the trucks are owned by investors. They get a share of the profits from the rentals, minus the costs of repairs. At the end of its life the vehicle is sold and the investors get the profits from the sale. The investors get the pleasure of collecting profits from a vehicle that they own, even though they don't ever drive it.

Why are people attached to vehicles? When you are commuting to work, you can ride in a one passenger mini car. If you are going shopping, or a camping trip, you can get an SUV. I would rather have the freedom to choose an appropriate vehicle for my voyage.

I love drivers like you, you pay $40K for a car and sell them 3 years later for $10K. I buy cars like this for $10K and drive them for many years. Thanks for blowing $30K so that I can drive a fancy car.

I remember someone saying that about CRT displays, they thought that LCD displays would never get cheap enough to replace them.

hot damn, I always wanted a car with a manual choke and a crank starter

can we have synchomesh in the transmission or is that too modern for you?

these are the people who sit in traffic for hours every day

You are aware that there are many hundreds of thousands of traffic cameras, and cameras attached to police cars in this country? it's almost impossible to drive for more than a few miles without showing up on one. If you see a police car on the road, it's looking at your license plate. If you drive onto a divided highway, for sure you're on camera, they put them on just about every on and off ramp. If you pay a toll, your license plate is recorded. If you park at a parking meter, your license plate is recorded.

In many parts of the country, rust is what ends the life of a car. It doesn't really matter how much it is used, it will still rust away in your driveway. So in these parts of the country, it is best to extract as much use as you can from the car while you can.

These driverless cars will be covered with advertising, just like city buses. If you damage the advertisements or cause the car to be taken out of service, you will be liable for any and all lost profits from the advertising.

I have no doubt that you will be able to find someone who will take you where you are going without waiting 15 minutes if you throw enough money at them. Maybe there will be super-premium service where you can cut in line for an extra $50 or $500 or whatever fee if you are really desperate. Those who are paying less, will do so knowing that they are paying less because people like you will pay more.

Well, duh. We all know markets are fake. it's all in our collective heads, they don't really exist. But they do serve a purpose anyway. They don't have to be perfect to perform their function. Shovels and rakes do not have to be spotless and perfect to be useful. They can be old and beat and rusted and they still move dirt just fine. Markets move money for us, and they don't have to be perfect either. They just have to be good enough.

or they will just be dropping you off at the train station

This is a utility with a value. People can work out its value on their own for their particular situation and decide for themselves. If the car service is super cheap and owning your own car is super expensive, then more people will decide that it's not worth the expense.

computers are not the only drivers that go haywire or get into situations they can't handle. It happens to people all the time. They have strokes or seizures or heart attacks behind the wheel, they get distracted, they drive into deep mud, they hit puddles at high speed. If you are in the car when something like this happens to you, what do you do?

yeah I kind of like the convenience of not getting killed by a distracted human driver